"Always remember the difference between economic power and political power: You can refuse to hire someone's services or buy his products in the private sector and go somewhere else instead. In the public sector, though, if you refuse to accept a politician's or bureaucrat's product or services you go to jail. Ultimately, after all, all regulations are observed and all taxes are paid at gunpoint. I believe those few who can't even see that have been short-sighted sheep...." ~ Rick Gaber

Woodcock on Proudhon and "Industrial Gigantism"

In the introduction to his celebrated biography of Proudhon, George Woodcock remarks upon some of the pitfalls of largeness and capital accumulation that have become so pronounced in the world today. That so many today should be so sure that hierarchy and rigidity develop naturally from a free markets is evidence of how deeply free markets are misunderstood.